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Dialog Tv Surreptitiously Fleecing its Customers

My family was away from the country for two months in the latter part of the 2017 and has realized on the return that the Dialog Tv connection has been disconnected due to non-payment. The due amount was immediately paid and an official request was made to get the connection activated back. After waiting a few more days without getting any positive results from their end, it was decided to call their helpline to get the matter resolved. Again an official complaint was lodged but like in the past, no help came through. After two failed attempts to get the connection activated again, it was finally decided to inform them that we were no longer interested in retaining their connection. The Helpline was given all required details to enable them to finally disconnect us from their listing. We thought that we have put the matter to rest finally but to our utter dismay, we have received another invoice recently billing us over Rs 5000/= of unpaid bills. The Dialog had been known to fleece cus...

Child in the Crowd

When the Emperor paraded before his Subjects in his newly woven clothes, a child in the crowd cries out, “Look he isn't wearing anything at all!” And in the modern days, many of us are like the subjects in the “Emperor’s new clothes” story. For the fear of losing something, many tend to keep their mouths shut even when the truth is obvious and pretend that everything around us is just fine and working in perfect harmony, although they are not. And who takes the front seats of this phenomenon are the professionals, religious and minority leaders to name a few. The day you become or try to become the “Child in the Crowd”, you will be branded as a traitor and or a person inciting religious and or racial disharmony. But as long as we act like the subjects did, they will do exactly what the weavers did to the Emperor in the first place. Fleece! How long are we going to allow the modern day Weavers to fleece us? When do we get the courage to be that “Child in the Crowd”? Do not be afraid...